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NAME
       debsums - check the MD5 sums of installed Debian packages

SYNOPSIS
       debsums [options] [package|deb] ...

DESCRIPTION
       Verify    installed    Debian    package   files   against   MD5   checksum   lists   from
       /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums.

       debsums can generate checksum lists from deb archives for packages that don't include one.

OPTIONS
       -a, --all
              Also check configuration files (normally excluded).

       -e, --config
              Only check configuration files.

       -c, --changed
              Report changed file list to stdout (implies -s).

       -l, --list-missing
              List packages (or debs) which don't have an MD5 sums file.

       -s, --silent
              Only report errors.

       -m, --md5sums=file
              Read list of deb checksums from file.

       -r, --root=dir
              Root directory to check (default /).

       -d, --admindir=dir
              dpkg admin directory (default /var/lib/dpkg).

       -p, --deb-path=dir[:dir...]
              Directories in which to look for debs derived from the package name (default is the
              current directory).

              A useful value is /var/cache/apt/archives  when  using  apt-get  autoclean  or  not
              clearing the cache at all.  The command:

                     apt-get --reinstall -d install `debsums -l`

              may be used to populate the cache with any debs not already in the cache.

              Note:  This  doesn't  work  for  CD-ROM and other local sources as packages are not
              copied to /var/cache.  Simple file sources (all debs in a single directory)  should
              be added to the -p list.

       -g, --generate=[missing|all][,keep[,nocheck]]
              Generate MD5 sums from deb contents.  If the argument is a package name rather than
              a deb archive, the program will look for a deb  named  package_version_arch.deb  in
              the directories given by the -p option.

              missing
                     Generate MD5 sums from the deb for packages which don't provide one.

              all    Ignore  the  on  disk sums and use the one supplied in the deb, or generated
                     from it if none exists.

              keep   Write the extracted/generated sums to /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.md5sums.

              nocheck
                     Implies keep; the extracted/generated  sums  are  not  checked  against  the
                     installed package.

              For  backward  compatibility, the short option -g is equivalent to --generate=miss-
              ing.

       --no-locale-purge
              Report missing locale files even if localepurge is configured.

       --no-prelink
              Report changed ELF files even if prelink is configured.

       --help
       --version
              Print help and version information.

EXIT STATUS
       debsums returns 0 on success, or a combination* of the following values on error:

       1      A specified package or archive name was not installed,  invalid  or  the  installed
              version did not match the given archive.

       2      Changed or missing package files, or checksum mismatch on an archive.

       255    Invalid option.

       *If both of the first two conditions are true, the exit status will be 3.

EXAMPLES
       debsums foo bar
              Check the sums for installed packages foo and bar.

       debsums foo.deb bar.deb
              As above, using checksums from (or generated from) the archives.

       debsums -l
              List installed packages with no checksums.

       debsums -ca
              List changed package files from all installed packages with checksums.

       debsums -ce
              List changed configuration files.

       debsums -cagp /var/cache/apt/archives
              As above, using sums from cached debs where available.

NOTES
       The  default  installation  of debsums package sets the debconf boolean value debsums/apt-
       autogen to be "true".

       This will create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90debsums as:

              DPkg::Post-Invoke {
                  "debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives";
              };

       by the postinst script (>=2.0.7).  Every APT  controlled  package  installation  processes
       will  execute  this  code  fragment  to generate the missing md5sums files from the binary
       packages.

       In order to create md5sums  files  for  the  already  installed  packages,  you  must  run
       debsums_init once after the installation of debsums package.

SEE ALSO
       md5sum(1), debsums_init(8)

ENVIRONMENT
       TMPDIR Directory  for  extracting  information and contents from package archives (/tmp by
              default).

CAVEATS
       While in general the program may be run as a normal  user,  some  packages  contain  files
       which  are  not  globally  readable  so  cannot be checked.  Privileges are of course also
       required when generating sums with the keep option set.

       Files which have been replaced by another package may be erroneously reported as  changed.

       debsums  is  intended  primarily  as  a  way of determining what installed files have been
       locally modified by the administrator or damaged by media errors and is of limited use  as
       a security tool.

       If  you  are  looking  for an integrity checker that can run from safe media, do integrity
       checks on checksum databases and can be easily configured to run periodically to warn  the
       admin of changes see other tools such as: aide, integrit, samhain, or tripwire.

AUTHOR
       Written by Brendan O'Dea <bod AT debian.org>.
       Based   on   a   program   by   Christoph  Lameter  <clameter AT debian.org>  and  Petr  Cech
       <cech AT debian.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002  Brendan O'Dea <bod AT debian.org>
       This is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.   There
       is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.



Debian                                      2007-11-29                                 DEBSUMS(1)

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